Vascular Health and Risk Management (Apr 2016)
Mortality in primary angioplasty patients starting antiplatelet therapy with prehospital prasugrel or clopidogrel: a 1-year follow-up from the European MULTIPRAC Registry
Abstract
Patrick Goldstein,1 Niccolò Grieco,2 Hüseyin Ince,3,4 Nicolas Danchin,5 Yvonne Ramos,6 Jochen Goedicke,7 Peter Clemmensen8,9 On behalf of the MULTIPRAC study investigators 1Emergency Department, Lille Regional University Hospital, Lille, France; 2Department of Cardiology, Hospital Niguarda Cà Granda Milano, Milan, Italy; 3Internal Medicine Centre, Cardiology Department, Rostock University Clinic, Rostock, Germany; 4Department of Cardiology, Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain and Am Urban, Berlin, Germany; 5Department of Cardiology, European Hospital Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France; 6Medical Department, Daiichi Sankyo Europe, Munich, 7Medical Department, Lilly Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany; 8Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital, 9Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Nykoebing F Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark Aim: MULTIPRAC was designed to provide insights into the use and outcomes associated with prehospital initiation of antiplatelet therapy with either prasugrel or clopidogrel in the context of primary percutaneous coronary intervention. After a previous report on efficacy and safety outcomes during hospitalization, we report here the 1-year follow-up data, including cardiovascular (CV) mortality. Methods and results: MULTIPRAC is a multinational, prospective registry of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) from 25 hospitals in nine countries, all of which had an established practice of prehospital start of dual antiplatelet therapy in place. The key outcome was CV death at 1 year. Among 2,036 patients followed-up through 1 year, 49 died (2.4%), 10 during the initial hospitalization and 39 within 1 year after hospital discharge. The primary analysis was based on the P2Y12-inhibitor, used from prehospital loading dose through hospital discharge. Prasugrel (n=824) was more commonly used than clopidogrel (n=425). The observed 1-year rates for CV death were 0.5% with prasugrel and 2.6% with clopidogrel. After adjustment for differences in baseline characteristics, treatment with prasugrel was associated with a significantly lower risk of CV death than treatment with clopidogrel (odds ratio 0.248; 95% confidence interval 0.06–0.89). Conclusion: In STEMI patients from routine practice undergoing primary angioplasty, who were able to start oral antiplatelet therapy prehospital, treatment with prasugrel as compared to clopidogrel was associated with a lower risk of CV death at 1-year follow-up. Keywords: upstream treatment, P2Y12-inhibitor, dual antiplatelet therapy, primary percutaneous coronary intervention, observational
